GNU bug report logs - #25103
partition alignment

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Volta <xvolta <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 04:40:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Phil Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Phil Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: Volta <xvolta <at> gmail.com>, Josep Lladonosa <jlladono <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25103-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25103: partition alignment
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:30:45 -0400

On 12/4/2016 3:14 PM, Volta wrote:
> On 4 December 2016 at 01:55, Josep Lladonosa <jlladono <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe this value is not drive related but usb bus related. Is that a usb
>> drive? I guess so. Found similar cases. One of them:
>>
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=linux-usb <at> vger.kernel.org&q=subject:%22Re%5C%3A+questions+about+uas%22&o=newest&f=1
> 
> Interesting! Yes, as you've guessed, it is a USB drive, using the uas
> driver. So, not a parted bug, and I've got a new avenue to read up on.

Interesting, but yes, parted is simply respecting the fubar optimal IO
size this drive is reporting, which appears to be one sector less than
32 mb.  Normal drives have an optimal IO size of 32 kb.
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